Following a visit to the crossing outside St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Aldershot Road, Surrey County Council will paint new ‘slow’ road markings and there will be a new ‘advance school warning sign’.

Parents and councillors have called for safety improvements, specifically to the crossing by replacing the zebra crossing with a puffin crossing.

County councillor for Guildford West, Fiona White, who has brought up the issue at previous local committee meetings, said she was not satisfied with the council’s initial road safety improvement measures.

“There is signage there at the moment,” Cllr White said.

“It isn’t working. When the original crossing was put in and there were some near misses, the ordinary beacons were replaced with big flashing ones. That hasn’t worked.

“What we actually need is proper traffic light control signal crossing, so everybody, drivers and pedestrians, know when they have a right to go.

“Red means stop, green means go. Everybody understands that.

"Children can be taught it at an early age and everybody knows whether it is their turn to move.

"That to me has to be what we really need at that crossing.

“I cannot see that it is going to improve matters to such an extent that it is worth using money to put this signage and everything in that could be used towards upgrading the crossing and making it safe on a long-term basis.”